New York Boylesque Festival Featuring Performers From Around the World

It's the guys' turn to dance and tease at the third annual New York Boylesque Festival. The event was created by burlesque producer Jen Gapay and New York City's "Best Gay Party Promoter" (according to the Village Voice) Daniel Nardicio. Together, they're bringing more than 40 male performers from Japan, Finland, Austria, Canada and the United States for one of the sexiest weekends of 2014. The festival's main event will be hosted by "drag mama" Sweetie and promises to be an entertaining night of stripteases, cabaret and comedy from some of the best male burlesque performers in the world. Please see the description of the full list of performers.

Reviews & Ratings

A bunch of fat–to–average dudes convulsing on stage for an obscene amount of money (once you factor in food and drinks), while the neanderthal in a dress and a poorly painted mug spouted humorless, puerile anecdotes (none of which were funny).

Service at the venue was terrible; our server didn't know the specials, gave us "waters," which were just cups of ice -- seriously, she just put cups of ice on the table and forgot to bring by the water jug. This was an abysmal experience, and we wound up walking out halfway through this pathetic excuse of a performance.

Should have told the buyer that our names would be on the guest list at the door, so we would have avoided the line to the box office and gone straight to get good seats. The view would be difficult at the venue if you didn't come in early. The...continued